Universal Design for Learning
(UDL)
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an approach to teaching and learning that gives all students equal opportunity to succeed. The goal of UDL is to use a variety of teaching methods to remove any barriers to learning. It's about building in flexibility that can be adjusted for every person's strengths and needs.
ENGAGEMENT
For purposeful, motivated learners, stimulate interest and motivation for learning.
Use Google Classroom to make learning interactive and collaborative.
Use digital media to engage learners. Students can watch informative videos. They can also create their own channel and share their videos with others.
Use Google Earth to engage learners with world exploration. Students can visualize abstract concepts across a global canvas.
Use games to engage students with questionnaires or quizzes.
REPRESENTATION
For resourceful, knowledgable learners, present information and content in different ways.
Online library that helps make reading meaningful by enabling readers to read along and real aloud with culturally diverse narrator accents.
Read more books, more often, with real purpose.
An online video showcase for speakers presenting great, well-informed ideas on various subjects.
Free online encyclopedia created and edited by volunteers around the world.
An informational site that helps kids ask and answer interesting questions about the world.
ACTION & EXPRESSION
For strategic, goal-directed learners, differentiate the ways that students can express what they know.
Free online photo editing and drawing tool.
Express ideas with ease by combining images, graphics, audio, video, and text on one digital canvas or poster.
Allows you to create equations, formulas, and more, digitally.
Free online infographic creator.